My hit list for EcoBuild
I’ll start in the the Natural Materials area where there will be live demonstrations of green oak framing. Then on to the Green Building Store stand to see its new range of PassivHaus products, including an MVHR system and two high performance timber windows.
Am curious to know more about the excellent The Green Register (TGR) training [...]
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Guest blog: John Horth reviews Green Register workshop ‘Build Tight, Ventilate Right’
Just got back from The Green Register’s ‘Build Tight, Ventilate Right’ seminar at the Create Centre here in Bristol, with my head still spinning. I don’t know about other architects, but what I look for in a CPD event is an update on latest developments, a bit of technical information/explanation and – possibly the most [...]
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London Sustainable Development Commission
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed John Plowman as the new chair of the London Sustainable Development Commission.
The Commission, established in 2002, advides the Mayor on sustainability issues including ways to improve and protect Londoners’ quality of life. It is made up of experts from the economic, social , environmental and London governance sectors [...]
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Savvy Kingspan
If you want to know where the market is headed, all you have to do is keep an eye on Kingspan. Last night I was at the House of Commons for a Kingspan reception to mark the publication of its latest ‘independent’ research with the catchy title: Non-Domestic Buildings: The Missed Opportunity. It caught the attention [...]
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First Dongtan, then Masdar, now Zira Island
Danish Big Architects together with engineers Ramboll are designing a carbon neutral resort and residential development in the Caspian Sea on an island facing Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku. Conceived as seven mountains derived from the Azerbaijan landscape, each ’peak’ will house a mix of public and private uses. Zira Island’s buildings will be heated and cooled by [...]
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‘Green’ design for energy hungry data centre
Arup Associates has just won planning permission for this large data centre on a 50 acre site in Saunderton near High Wyckham. To be built in four phases for Frankfurt-based client e-shelter, the first phase will complete in 2010. The project includes extensive turf roofs - with indigenous planting similar to the surrounding fields - [...]
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Sustainable City Awards
London practice Studio E Architects were nominated for a record four out of nine categories at the 2009 Sustainable City awards sponsord by the City of London Corporation. The practice won the Environmental Improvement in Small to Medium Enterprises and was runner up in the Air Quality/Climate Change and Resource Conservation prizes.
For a full round-up [...]
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10 (to the power of six) green bottles…
Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province have used 1 million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. The mixture of green Heineken and brown local Chang beer bottles have been used to construct everything from the roof to the washrooms. In 1963 Heineken trialed the ‘brick that holds beer’ in an attempt [...]
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The Life Handbook launch
‘Let it slow, let it flow, let it go’ is the catchy mantra of The LifE Handbook: long-term initiatives for flood-risk environments, a preview edition of which was launched today.
The LifE project is one of six projects funded by Defra’s Flood and Coastal Erosion Management Innovation Fund and is part of Defra’s Making Space for [...]
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The Green Collar Economy
I’ve just been reading the book which coined the term ‘green collar economy,’ which I blogged about a few weeks ago: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution can Fix our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones. With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr and back cover endorsements by Thomas L. Friedman, Nancy Pelosi, [...]
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